[DECtalk] text assist

[Alex H.]

Sigh, I wish these things didn't always need a VM to function. Stupid
16-bit abandonware, and greedy ass companies that probably aren't
making any money by holding on to the software not open sourcing it in
the first place... OK, that's enough ranting for this email. :P

On 8/6/14, Jake Gross via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I got text assist working on windows 7.
> Here is what you do.
> 1. Download the free vmware player from
> http://grossgang.com/vmware.
> 2. Download a windows 98 virtual machine from
> http://eurpod.net/vmware. It has jaws 6.0 installed on it.
> 3. In the win98 vm, download text assist from
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5648546/Textassist.rar.
> Winrar is also included in the virtual machine.
> 4. Extract the rar file with winrar.
> 5. Run setup.exe.
> 6. Your dun. Run the text reader program and have fun.
> Also, i found a youtube video of text assist speaking german. I
> think it uses dectalk 4.3. Link:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN05jR_PxW0
> Jake
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